After an onstage meltdown, stand-up comic Schafer starts to make a comeback until he is kidnapped and told he will be killed if he can't make his captor laugh and that, for each failed joke, a loved one will be killed.

After an onstage meltdown, stand-up comic Schafer starts to make a comeback until he is kidnapped and told he will be killed if he can't make his captor laugh and that, for each failed joke, a loved one will be killed.